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"VoL"VTI; THREE AGAINST TENAn Episode of The Seminole WarHound a ft bond on the Oeklawaha, just at sunset there appeared ft dugout paddled by two stalwart fellows in a sort of homespun uniform, while a boy dressed as an oflioer sat in the stern. Five minutes before the croco>?/.lilcs and cranes, water turkeys, bitterns aud herons had had the black, oozv river all to themselves as it slim J o glishly made its way through the swampy palmettos and cypress. The boat bumped along slowly, striking against cypress trees and fallen tree trunks. The paddlers looked auxious, for the chancejof finding a comfortable camping ground was growing slighter before young Will Loring began to bo sick of lfs osca pude Ho liad left the camp ei^ht. miles nwny without orders inul oken two of his company with hint to do Indian scouting on his own account. Little more than a year before he had been a schoolboy soldier in the streets of ?St. Augustine with other youngsters. When tlio Seminole War of 18)15 broke out, sweeping with a wave of lire and massacre across tho State, he ran away from home and joined a company of volunteers. I lis daring and coolness at the battles of tlio Withlacoochee and Alaqun, in connection with tho social importance of his family, had given him his epaulets at an age when other boys of the same years wore still in terror of the school mas tor's birch. "Wall, Lieutenant;" drawled one of the men as he peered wearily into the depths of tho dark cypress arches, "we're in a 'orrrid fix, I reckon. If we keep on we'll run plum into a nest of then Injin devils, dead shore." Hoth the soldiers were Crackers, bred in the woods and swamps, good shots and skillful hunters, though thin, slouching figures were not ornaments to a dress parade. "Keep on paddling," said young Coring in low tones, but with an ail of sternness, which did not sot well on Ins smooth face and mischievous black eyes, -'and await my orders. Then feeling that he had asserted his authority, he continued with a hurst of boyish confidence," "1 tell you what it is, Scraggs, we'll have to get hack to that hammock, about a mile up the rivor, where wo can find pine knots to cook supper; don't you think so?" "Bless you, Lieutenant, d'ye hanker to lose yer skelp? No supper tonight but a drink of swamp water, and a chew of raw bacon. I'll bet there's a hundred of red varmints in two miles on us." "You're not afraid, Scraggs, are you?" said the youngster with a lordly air; "a fellow who can bore a potato tossed in the air at a hundred yards with a rifle ball, ought to have plon i/jr ui oiiuui\9 "A feotic more skoory than I war . "forty year ago,*' answered the Crack*ir, with a twinkle in his eye. "llowsomevor, as men of my inches do, I reckon I've get as much cl'ar grit as as most on 'em." This talk had gone on in a half whispers. I"ho darkness was increasing every mi an to. The boyish oflicer in spite ofhis airs was evidently uneasy, for his c . es shot continual glances ahead and on both sides into the swamp, as the dugout glided at a snail's pace. They wore noaring nnother bend in the stroam when through the tangle of leaf and vine there was a red gleam like a huge firefly. Without waiting orders Ncragg's whirled the boat back with a powerful paddle, and turned to his officer with eyes almost starting " 7 from their sockets, shaking his head in warning. "Injuns, Injuns, Lieutenant Will, a dozen on 'em," he whispered. "I OOO/l l?rv Ll*?/I r.H/1 /\P I ???r? owu uiu in uu uuu ui l*vw uiiuuca roun' the bend. Thar must bo a hummock whar they're camped. They're jiss got through catin', an' are stum pin' out the embers. Sh? (lon't speak. I'll work the old sciw deep into the cypress. We'll see what tricks they're up to, see in' we're hyar and can't get away yery easy. But, by Jimmy, my skelp kinder crawls as if'twould not be thar tomorrow morninV' Young Ix>ring nodded, and the paddlers cautiously forced the boat fifty foot through the mouth of a black arch into tho heart of the swamp, Hidden here they were nearer the savages than before, and could hoar their movements. It soon become clear that the party of Seminolos had no purpose of leaving thoir camp that night, and so suspicion of wliite men olosc at hand. One by one they dropped asleep, and their slumber chorus, which soundod not unlike the grun. ting of the alligators in tho swamp, was music to the prisoners squatted in.their gloomy covert. f - : -*- ?-. CONWA'" Throe hours had passed, and the growing^ight that silvered tlio lagoon i outside of their retreat proved the moon well up over the tops of the trees. "fsovv is our tunc,' whispored Scraggs, "to got outer this hole and paddle up stream for a safe landing place and vamouso hack to camp." Lieutenant Loring answered not a worh.? i His boyish mind was deep in thought?a daring thought which thrilled liiin with excitement. If he returned to camp as he left it there was sure to he sharp repri mand, perhaps a court marthil for I absence without leave. The excuse that he was an irresponsible lad would aloi.e save him, and at that fancy his heart had waxed hot with shame. But to go hack as conqueror and : hero?ah! that was worth risking his [ I scMp for. "Are ye asleep?" whispered Scraggs again. O , "No, was the reply; "J am going to take these redskins back to camp v i. me. So, Scraggs, you two can just tie your h?ir on, for it will soon i be in peril. The men jumped as if they heard tlie whiz/, of Seminole lead. "You see i; would bo a shame to sneak hack empty handed. Wo can't exactly take their scalps, but we can take themselves as a present to the General," said the ingenious youth. "The Indians are fast asleep. We'll paddle up and take their canoes. Then.I'll land on the hummock, you know and pick up their rilles. Then in the morning wo can order them to 1 surrender on pciil of being shot 'down, for we shall have loaded guns, I and they'll have none." The two Crackers groaned over 1 this piece of youthful strategy, but Scraggs responded: "All right, i teu tenant. I s'poSe I we've got to di> s mo time." The du -out K ft its cos ?rt and glided silent, as ft ; tadow into tlio open ! stream. A few rokes brought them 111 full sight oi the Indian camp. The island where the savages lay was well-shadowed by the trees, but their forms could bo dimly seen stretched on the earth. Silently the little party detached the two canoes and towed them to a secure position, where they fastened them to a cypress troc fifty yards from shore. As the boat approached the shore on Us second more dangerous mission young l.oring slipped off his boots I and stepped into tlio ooz; regardless of moccasins and rattlers. Scraggs and his comrade covering the ad ranee with leveled guns, felt their stout hearts <[ita)<c as their boy leader crept in among those sleeping figures i of bronze. A stumble or the snapping of a twig might mako the difference of life and death. The lad moved as if lie were a cat. The coarse bummock grass armed around with minute thorns, cut inLo his flesh, but he scarcely felt them. 'I'he sleeping redskins lav partly in the moonlight ?> I %t u and partly in tho shade of the trees which rose in the centre of the hummock, each one with his rille by his side, the fierce copper face chiseled as if in metal. Ilad tho Indians disposed of their guns as the whites do, by stacking or resting them against a tree, the task of securing them would haye been less risky. Hut they had kept their arms within reach, and some oven had their tomahawks loosened from the belts as if for instant use. The Indian rarely sets a guard at night, unless in the immediate pres eneo of an enemy. Hero in the depth of a great cypress swamp, impassable to troops, a surprise would seem impossible. Yet even now the cun ning and suspicion of the race had no {forsaken them. The nerves of tho young oflicor wore strung to the highost tension. One by one he stealthily lifted tho rifles from the earth till ho had what he could carry. These he oore to the low bank and passed to the men on guard in the dugout; No word was exchanged. Again ho returned to the dangorous sleepers, a distance _ 1 A I 1 /? * " * uj .loom a nnnureu root rrom snore, for a second load. A brawny savage tossing in his dreams gave a fierce grunt and throw out a hand, which touched the young thief's ankle as if to clutch it. The moment thrilled hi in with .ill the agony of uisCovory but ho stood stool-: still v. iting for something further. It was a false alarm, but cold sweat poured from bis fane. Anoth r of tno savages! bad his hand on the stock of his gun, and the piece had to he gently slid from under his fingers. Again, the third time, he went back to complete his work. The moon was now high up in the sky, and poured a flood of light on tlio little island. The recumbent Indiaus were cut out like monstrous silhouettes against the ground. The boy's swim trying head warned him that his strength could't last much longer; But he resolutely wont at his task, though his throat felt as if squeezed by an iron grip. He had gathered the last armful, when one of tho .ed men in his diearns raised himself 011 his haunohes and sat with chin resting on his knees. Tho moonshine flidkered on his face through the quivering foliage, and his sun "ite True to Yoiii ST, S. C. TH ken oyos appeared half opon and following his white enemy. The watchful Scruggs; too, observed this move ment, and his tanned cheeks white as chalk, as his finger was about to press his rifle-trigger. Hut he waited, and the savage sleepor tuade no fn ft liar ciirn ?U VIIVI Ol^lll At last tho work was done. The ten minutes had seemed a year. The lad staggered to the boat, staggering as if witn an ague. "1 must spoak," he panted, "or 1 shall yell. I thought twice I'd have to whoop or go into a faint. But, Scraggs, I pulled through, didn't 1! Help me in." 'Wall! You've got the guns, shore,', said Scraggs, "and drat my skin ef the biggest bully in Jessup's camp would a done it." No time had been lost while Scraggs was relieving his mind; the dugout was skimming out into the stream with lively paddle strokes. Tho plan was boldly executed in the morning. With the coming of light the Seminoles discovered the robbery of their weapons, and rushed to the edge of 1 he swamp with frantic yells, brandishing their tomahawks. But tho marauders were far beyond the throw of axo or knife, and sat with levelled rilies. Then came a shrill voice, demanding in Spanish the instant surrender of tho little Seminole band, for at that time nearly everyone in Florida knew something of this language. Atter considerable parley the red men agreed to throw their knives and tomahawks into the Inarsh. They wero taken aboard in pairs and thoir right wrists tightly fastened together with stout strips of Seragg's homespun shire. The dugout toued the canoes up stream, while the young officer sat in the stern and guarded the captives with loaded pistols. So the daredevil returned to camp the same afternoon, and instead of a rowing he was covered with praise and honor by CJeueral .lessup mid his little army. * * -xThis boy afterward because a dis tinguished General- Major General William W. Loring?who led firmi es in the far distant East as Tasini in the service of the Egyptian Khedive, as well as in this country. But in his long career ho never did anything more daring and heroic than the feat planned and executed by the hoy of fifteen, the substantial facts of which were told me by the General himself.?G. F. Ferris, in St. Louis Bepublic A Cheering SignOne of the cheering signs of the times is the fact that this year the South wiImprobably grow the biggest corn crop it ever j|grew. This means loss cotton and loss cotton means better prices for the smaller crop grown. There is no use for an agricultural country to expect permanent prosperity so long as it buys most of its meat, Hour, corn and other food for man and beast when it can grow them cheaply at home. The last crop of cotton must 'nave been a severe lesson to many growers; after spending money, time, labor, fertility, on the crop, to harvest it and not bo able to get back what it has cost is a discouraging state of aftuirs. But there is a good timo coining when the South will produce all of its supplies, in the way of products of the soil and also many manufactures. Will this injure thejprospeets of the North and West? Not a bit; the timo will soon come when the limit of production in those sections will bo reached and prices will advance accordingly, and this is one more reason why the South should grow her own food, for if it Is disastrous for her to buy at present very low prices what will it be to buy at very high ones? No the welfare of the whole country is best secured when every section is prosperous. A. L. okosby, Caton villi, Md. The Lover's Lament. Your face is like a drooping (lower, Swoetheart! ? BUU )UU IH(U?^r iioiu wy uour, Sweetheart! Your rounded outlines waste away, In vain I weep, in Tain 1 pray, What power Death's cruel hand can stay? Sweetheart, Sweetheart! Why, nothing but Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It imparts strength to the falling system, cures organic troubles, and for debilitated and feeble women generally, is unqualed. It dispels melancholy and nervousness, and builds up both fleehjand strength. Guaranteed*ojgive satisfaction in every case, or money paid for it refunded. A woman might as well propose; her husband never admits after marriage that he was the one who did it. r Word, Your Work a ml V UR8DA Y. WEAVER ON THE SOUTH Some of the Abuse He Has Heaped on This SectionThe rcord of (Jen. J. H. Weaver, the Presidential candidate of the People's party, as a slanderer of the South aril her people, has fortunately been preserved in a form which leaves no doubt of its accuracy. It is given in u speech by Gen. Henderson, of Iowa, in the House of Representatives, on the 10th of July, 1888. Extracts from this spoeeh, as officially reported in the Congressional Record, are given below. I'ho expressions of Gen. Weaver should condemn him in the eyes of nil true Southern men and loyal Democrats, and of every Granger j and Alliance man in tho Union who ! believes in the ilootrino of fraternity i and opposes sectionalism. what w havku sato. The following is an extract from tlio ('on lif.ccv:! of July j 1 ltb, 1888: The clerk read as follows: He said at Albia on July 18th, 8GG: U1 want to congratulate you first, fellow-citizens, on the suppression of purely Democrats for the Democratic ! purpose ofdisseving this Union and perpetually establishing human slavery. Now and forever it is estab lishing as an eternal truth that, the Democracy in no place or State can ever be trusted with government, j As a party it should dbband, just as a section of it did at Aj p -nattox ' He said at Centroville, i 18<?t; "Again has the Democ.; ic party of Iowa spoken. Why, i., 1 am ; astonished beyond tnea u that a party with a record so utterly vile and wretched and wicked should he so lost to all shame and decency as to make an appearance before the loyal peoplo of Iowa. "They should be trampling in the ; wilderness of oblivion and never more return." (Laughter on the IVHJJllUIIUlVli DIUVi J He said in a joint debate with Colli* II. Trimble at Bloonifioid on September 4, 1898; "Ilero we have the old light over again. The Confederate Democracy North and South, in which the infamous copperhead division of Iowa appears, are again contesting with Grant for the safety of the Union. As at Donelson, he proposes to move on their works at once,' and thero is no escapt except in another surreder. Charge on them, fellow Republicans, and spare not one, not even ajdeputy road supervisor from total political annihilation." 11 -aughter 011 the Republican side.] lie said in Bloomficld, on September 20,1809: "What is the use of futhcr arratollincr the defunct Democrncv CJ O " ^ with all its hoary crimes, at the bar of public opinion? Wo know that its acts comprise mudcr, treason, thoft, aison, fraud, porjury, and all crimes possible for an organization to connive at." [Renewed laugh tor on the Republican side.] "It would be a morcy to put its record a million miles deep in tho pit that is mentioned in Holy Writ, and 1 may aud that if a largo and distinguished assortment of itsalleg od statesmen were sent along it would only bo common justice." [Applause ou the Republican side.) He said in Fairfield September 18, 1870: "The Democracy, as usual, are loud in their opposition, but what did they ever do when they had a chance? Hero in Iowa they -lole ' r .../I i ? -.11 .t .. tin; duiiuvi iiiiiu uiiu iiaituiiiiM in y stoic tho arsenals, the navy, tho treasury, overthing that wa not reel i hot, and cheated the very devil's ' rebellion. And these men appear and ash for your support. They should come on bended knees asking your forgiveness for the uuspeak able crimes they have committed and tho wretched miseries inflicted upon our common counry." ( Loud applause on tho Republican Hide,j lie said in Kooknk, September 10, 1871: The record of the Republican party appears to tho candid judgement of^all men as unimpeachable, save, perhaps that it was too lenient with the leading Democratic conspirrators. The name old gang, save those who our Country" 8El>rrEM - . wero shot or hung, uro tigtiin eonspiring to got possession of tho govorntnent next year. Woo to them! for tho loyal hosts will crush them j j anil crush them forever out of all possible danger of such a misfortune to our common country.v lie said at Qskaloosa, September 25,1872; % "No Republican can evor, under any circumstances, have any part or lot with the hungry, rebellious, man hating, woman selling gang corporated under tne name of Democracy, a name so full of stench and poison that j it should be blotted from tho vocabulary of civilized man and handed i over to tho barbarism that it so fitly j now and in all the past has represented." | I'rolongod applause on tho Republican side.] I lo said at Stiles, September* 11, IS?-', n reforring to the financial p >licy of the Democratic party; ; Hut then, what could you expect 4\v-. , tl -i: 1 >-- ' | ui'j |"?wi lining uindlBt'U) uu* j crepi . dismal, darned old 1 )omncnitic 1 party? ' | Prolonged laughter on tho ; Republican siilc. j Ho said at Monona, September, 1874: "Tin* < can be no doubt about the question at all. V. it It greenbacks and national bank notes our husincs needs are well met. There can he no bettor unity of tho paper currency than these. Hilt the assault of a j party which, through its financial J legislation, inflicted untold wrongs and robberies upon tho people by permitting hunks without a solid basis to issue a circulating note. * * * The fact is, gontlemon, tho I)emocraoy has never been able tocomprehond the tinuncial question. Between its I | inherent dishonesty and apparent sen ility it makes a pretty hut not unusual exhibition of its corporate, consolidated idiocy.'' | Renewed laughter on the Republican side.] Mr. Aondorson, of Iowa: "How have the mighty fallen?" My colleague, Mr. Weaver, confesses that the utterances just read were made by him, hut he pleads the "baby act," because t hey were made in the days of his adolesotice. They wero made! as late as 1S7I. I wish to ask inv I ^ I colleague, and would like hint to answer now, whether when he made those charges against the Democracy he believed thoy were true? Mr. Mason: lie said so. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa; The gentleman said so, they tell me, and he is silent, though in hia seat now. Very well. Now ho says that he changed his position because the Ro, publican party foil from grace. Ah! Mr. Chairman, I have lived in Iowa since P was a child, and have been an old observer of the records of our public men. In 1875 I was a member of the same Republican State convention with my colleague when he was a candidate for nomination for Governor. It was the judgment of the Republican party of Iowa, that the old wur Governor, old Sam Kirkwood, should be nominatsd instead of my ambitious friend. Ho was nominated. and my friend was defeated in that Republican convention. Up to tihis linn he stood among foremost champions of every Republican proposition that had been laid before the country?financial propositions and all. In public and in private he stood forth as a gladiator defending Republican ideas and Republican politics. Rut he was beaten as a candidate for Governor in that conven tion. Matured man as he was a J man of we'1..formed judgment, well equipped in knowledge of public affairs, lio was beaten on tho lirst ballot in that convention. [Applause on tho Republican side.j Then, suddenly, within two short years, the grumbling commencing co inutanfi this revolution too place; and the convictions which followed his blade at Uonclson, thut had led him up to matured manhood, suddenly f/>, ! II J I lu.iwrl) j! iM.ol'nn Ktr a f ; IV H ?17 VHVUI^II OH I' 1\UII I/J (% Wll Ill/Ill ! (Joel. All at once my colleage finds the Republican party not good enough for him, (laughter] and lie .suddenly jumps into the ranks jof the rotton Democracy, as lie has just described thorn. And now he gets up and tries to make this house and the country believe that lie changed his position because the Republican party had become politically so corrupt. Did it become corrupt between 1875 and 1877? What monstrous political revolution had taken place in the Republican party in those two brief years? Ah, "Consistency thou art a jewel!" Hut that does not describe my colleage. Again, in 1880, ho suddenly broke looso from the Democracy and became the I'residential candidate of the Green back party. At that time, in his speeches in the South and in i other parts of the country, ho drew BEB 15,18 1 r an indictment against tho Demooracy showing how terribly they had! fallen, describing the outrages in the South, their ballot box stuffing;! and hUovo all things ho appealed to the Grcwnbackcrs to oppose going into any combination with tho Dom- < ocraoy. | Applause and laughter on i the Republican aide.) Some are i even mean enough to claim that ho ran in 1880 on tho tail of Garfield's < kite to keep fusion from taking < placo between the National Greenback party and the National J)emo- 1 eratio party. I do not say tnnt wns the motive; but he did ua lota of good in that campaign. God bless j him for that! | Laughter and ap. 1 plause.) We "downed the Demo- < cracy. i After that campaign of 1880, before he had time to lot tho blood re- i tiro from his beautiful countenance after the exertion* of that campaign, < he chiuo back into Iowa and roared for fusion with Democracy, and got | it, tot>; for he is an able man; wo all concede and admire his ability. After denouncing fusion in 1880, hoi lias since boon working for it, com-1 mencing immediately after that J campaign, and having obtained his seat in this House on that doctrine, j he is now enjoying the fruits of his latest Hop as a Democratic member | of Congress. I Here the hammer fell. J Needed Changes It is to be hoped that tho crisis through which we are passing will have a permanent beneficial olTect on the future of the South. Tho first ami main lesson taught is that every Southern farmor as a matter of individual duty ami interest should raise all food crops his land will produce necessary to the sustenance of man and boast on his farm. This policy universally persued would soon make the South the mistress, not tho slave, of the commercial and manufacturing world; would enable her to get as much or more for a small crop of cotton as she now gets for a very large one; would enable her to draw from the world for internal use and investment at home all the money she could desire, and would soon bring her people to a condition of true independence. Wo ftrn tn lilnmn far Am* itrmimH naitJi . !?? V UHIIIIU tvi V/VI I I O V> I V IvV/ilVi 1 tion. Nothing injures us so much us our unwise policy of making our cotton crop on crodit, and heuco making an overproduction from tho voluntary strain we place upon ourselves. "Tis not in our stars but in ourselves that wo are underlings." As a necessary element in roforin wo must abandon all disadvantageous farming methods. What we want is a broad, rapid, yet sure systern of preparation of land, and culture afterwards, suitable with slight modification for all crops and all crops and all classos of land. The first essential is the diauso of the corn and cotton. Provided the land can be so ploughed as to carry off surplus water, there is no reason for planting corn on a high narrow ridge. Of course no land can be considered tillable unless tfcc surplus water is carried off by surface v* u!iuv;i uinui wi jnvjivi jnuugiiing. The final suggestion I wish to arrive at is the laying oft and ploughing of farms and plantations in broad twelve or fifteen foot lands, always taking the inclination that will give drainage. After a farm is laid off in this way it can be turned over by lrrgc turnplows and subsoilod at the same time cheaper and quicker than most farms having the superficial beds now thrown up for corn and cotton, besides all manure and littorare completely burned to the benefit of the land and subsequent culture, and the broad water furrows between the lands can be further deepened by subsoil plows until in inoHt cases perfect drainage and prevention of washing are socured. Land thus ploughed, say from eight to twelve inches deep any time after the lirst of January, will, if proporly cultivated, afterwards make all the crop it is capable of producing. By keeping ono or two inches of the surfaco pulverized and stirred, tho roots of plants will permeate all the earth that has beon turned over by the plow, and go down to the very hard pan without anv further breaking. Of course all additional pulverization is desirable provided it is done before planting or before the roots reach out to the middles. At planting time 1 would run across these lands with such an implements as Drader's spado harrow, or the Acme harrow, or some other kind. How ever heavy the rains which may have fallen this implement, or one like it, . V $L.r. jm. No. 9. will, chpu.tho earth to piecoa and make it dod send bod. Then run and cotton planters across the lands, planting the corn ami onl 1mm <k? 1 <1 lovnl nvnnhf nu I l\n V* VV/UV/V VII I* iu T V'1 VAVVJ/U ! " VI iv# planters may throw a alight li'lgo over them in covering. In tho early stages of growth harrows can ho run across tho rows parallel with tho water furrows, thus avoiding a great ileal of hoc labor in cultivating both corn and cotton. Afterwards the Dixon sweep and olhor Hat culture iuipib'iiicnta can be put in with their rapid and effective work, cultivating without breaking or exposing roots, giving tho full strength of the land to tho plants, and enabling them to , defy drouth. I have carried but the above idoas in my crop this year with the greatest satisfaction and imeouragment, using itching but the Dixson sweep in cultivation. 1 have com not excelled in who neighborhood planted as above, by following the Drader harrow with my corn ' planters and giving af erwards two workings with he Dickson sweep. The above broken ideas, already too tedious I fear, can only give aglimse of a largo and comprehensive -yatom which wo must adopt in some form in order to become an independent people. Oscar K. Bi.kosoi:. ,S'lull \[ounily ? *? +** Cleveland's PluckIf thero be one trait in a man's character more than another which calls forth tho admiration of his fellowmcn, that trait is courage. Courage in its most exalted state is soon upon tho battlefield but thero arc occasions in the every day affairs of life where its exorcise, although not to such an exalted degree as in the other case, calls forth the admiration of men. Wo have in I'resident Cleveland an example of this moral courage which bus, in a marked degree, arrested the attention of his fellow-citizens and called forth their admiration for the pluck and nerve with which he has administered the duties of the presidential office. That he lias administered those duties conscientiously goes without saying, lie has scrutinized every measure that has come before him for his action and they have been considered more in the interests of % the public good rather than in the spirit of partisanship; and thus com sulered ho has affixed his signature or returned the bills disapproved. The direction in which he has most signally displayed his moral courage in ill that of pensions. Hero a less couragoous man would have faltered; and being1 a candidate for re-election would have weighed the chances of advancing his own interests at tho expense of those people, knowing that tho opposition were straining every 'norve to capturo the soldier's vote hy making it appear that they alono were their only friends. But he unflinchingly and unhesitatingly remainod true to his convictions of right and interposed his veto in the interost of tho honest upright soldior and protected the treasury from dospoliation. Kveiy honest soldier can but commend this action as it must strengthen their cases now pending before the pension boreau. Were it any othor than presidential year these acts of J'rcsidont Cleveland would have recived praise even from tho opposition, and been justified by all honest men irrespective of party. But tho exigency of party makes i. i necessity for the republicans to distort, misrepresent and malign tho President ,> for these acts. But the people who bcliovo in justice and right uphold, and sustain him. ^ Things Worth Knowing' That lish may be scaled much easier by dipping into boiling water about a minute. That fish may as well be scaled, if desired, before packing down in salt though in that case do not scald them. Salt fish are quickest and best freshened by soaking in sour milk. That milk which is turned or changed) may bo sweetened and rendered lit for use again by stirring in a little soda. " That salt will curdle new milk; hence, in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not bo addod until the dish is prepared. That fresh meat, after begining to sour, will sweeten if placed out of doors in tho cool over night. That clear boiling water will romove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain, and thusjprevent its spreading over the fabric. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth also from the hands. That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will aid the whitening process. The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a oharacter; sow a character and yon reap a lestiny.